COMPLETE IRELAND PIANO MUSIC, Volume 4 (SOMMCD 0115)
Mark Bebbington, piano
The Towing Path
Three Pastels (The Grecian Lad; The Boy Bishop; Puck’s Birthday)
Summer Evening
Soliloquy
Spring Will not Wait
In Those Days (Daydream; Meridian)
Merry Andrew
Leaves from a Child’s Sketchbook (By the Mere; In the Meadow; The Hunt’s Up)
Meine Seele
Epic March (premiere recording)
Pastoral
Month’s Mind
On a Birthday Morning
Columbine
Equinox
Supported by the John Ireland Charitable Trust
“If you can resist a welling-up of tears on encountering this music, then you are a better man than I, especially given Bebbington’s fabulous feel for the harmonies and voicing of chords. Having now had the pleasure of reviewing all four of Mark Bebbington’s John Ireland discs, I congratulate him for his terrifically imaginative response to this music.”
International Record Review, February 2013
‘Five-star’ review: BBC Music Magazine